Hi All Could someone recommend a Mikrotik product, ideally one of Router Boards w/ enclosure, that would be effective for performing bandwidth shaping of ~3 dozen clients sharing a single uplink with 100Mbit/s download speed? I.e., what product are you using for this purpose now?
Ideally, the bandwidth shaping could enforce multiple profiles, e.g. some clients get 10Mbit/s down, some get 3Mbit/s down. There would be comparable shaping applied on clients' upload speeds, but the correctly shaped download speeds are a higher priority. Also, it is possible this uplink may be upgraded 200 or even 300Mbit/s, so it would be cool if the MT product (which I presume would have 1Gbit/s integrated LAN) could also handle an uplink of that speed too. A friend of mine is presently trying to use an RB750GS for this purpose, but he is finding that the bandwidth shaping becomes ineffective for trying to ensure consistently shaped download speeds above ~5Mbit/s (i.e all clients only seem to see single-digit Mbit/s, regardless of which shaping profile is applied). My guess is that the RB750 is simply exhausting its available RAM trying to maintain queues for for the faster shaping profiles, causing them to effectively saturate at a fixed upper limit, and that my friend could use one of the beefier Router Boards with more RAM. But I'm unsure which product would have adequate capacity and not be $$$ overkill. (Also, I'm trying to discourage him from dropping lots of $$$ on a Cisco product, when a cheaper Mikrotik product could presumably still meet his needs.) Thanks. -- Ben West http://gowasabi.net [email protected]
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